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Trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah has published a memoir, covering his time with the Sun Ra Arkestra in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. It is the first book authored by a group member. A Strange Celestial Road is out July 25 on Blank Forms. Abdullah put in more than 20 years with the band. A key figure…
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Richard Evans is author of Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978—1983, a wonderfully detailed account of the impact that affordable synthesizer technology had on pop music some 40 years ago. Richard and I talked about what has been described as the definitive account of the period.
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Promising “new ways to present and talk about organized sound, and creative solutions to artistic questions and endeavours,” The smallest functional unit collective has released the second edition of its publication of experimental and graphic music scores, Graphème. The Berlin collective includes Ute Wassermann, Tony Buck, Mazen Kerbaj, Magda Mayas and Racha Gharbieh. Twelve compositions are featured. This second edition…
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Music industry veteran Richard Evans has penned a review of electronic pop’s heydey between 1979 and 1983. Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure founder Vice Clarke has written its foreward. From publishers Omnibus Press: “This definitive account explores how krautrock, disco, glam rock and punk inspired a new generation to rip up the rulebook and venture…
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